Kollapur

Kollapur was the seat of the rajas of Jatprole.¹ Jatprole was one of the five chief samasthans, the tributary estates of Hindu chiefs, in the dominions of the Asaf Jahi Nizams.¹ The Imperial Gazetteer of 1909 says that the Raja “resides at Kolhapur (population, 2,204), though until eighty years ago Jatpol was the head-quarters”.²

The Jatprole samasthan

The gazetteer describes the estate as lying in the south of the Mahbubnagar district.² It had 89 villages, 191 square miles and 31,613 people in 1901.² Its revenue was 1.9 lakhs, and its tribute to the Nizam was Rs 73,537.² The article on the Nagar Karnul taluk gives its area as about 429 square miles.³

The gazetteer says, “from inscriptions”, that a chief took the estate in 1243.² It prints his name as Pnnapota Nayadu.² He captured Pangal and other forts, and his lands reached Srisailam in the east and the Krishna in the south.²

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century Raja Jagannath Rao had no son.² He adopted Lachma Rao, “a scion of the Rao family of Pakhal”.² In 1831 Lachma Rao obtained the Jatprole pargana (revenue division) from the Nizam on a fixed rent of Rs 70,000.²

The Raja in 1909 was Venkata Lachma Rao, “a younger brother of the Raja of Venkatagiri in the Madras Presidency”.² He too had succeeded by adoption, and he had cleared debts of nearly two lakhs.²

Footnotes

1. Imperial Gazetteer of India: Hyderabad State (1909), p. 52 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩²

2. Imperial Gazetteer: Hyderabad (1909), p. 297 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹²

3. Imperial Gazetteer: Hyderabad (1909), p. 149 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). ↩